Detail from The Canal, Amsterdam, 1889, James McNeill Whistler, The Hunterian, University of Glasgow

 

Square Canister with square neck, and saucer-shaped Dish

Catalogues Raisonnés

  • MacDonald, Margaret F., James McNeill Whistler. Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours. A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 1995 (cat. no. 630) as 'Square Canister with square neck, and saucer-shaped Dish'.

Authored by Whistler

  • Thompson, Sir Henry, A Catalogue of Blue and White Nankin Porcelain Forming the Collection of Sir Henry Thompson. Illustrated ... from Drawings by James Whistler ... and Sir Henry Thompson, London, 1878, final design, p. 23 (cat. no. 113) and pp. 38-39 (cat. no. 202), repr. pl. XVII.

Catalogues 1855-1905

SALE:

  • 29 preliminary drawings, 'sketches of blue and white vases, in the collection of Sir H. Thompson' were sold at auction, Christie's, London, 7 February 1879 (lot 534).

Last updated: 18th March 2021 by Margaret